Organization of the ABCR gene: Analysis of promoter and splice junction sequences

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-122

  Allikmets, Rando ^a   Wasserman, Wyeth W ^b   Hutchinson, Amy ^c   Smallwood, Philip ^d   Nathans, Jeremy ^d   Rogan, Peter K ^e   Schneider, Thomas D ^c   Dean, Michael ^c  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ABC genes; Information theory; Splice sites

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME 1P; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINOPATHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLICEOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032540879     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00269-8     Document Type: Article

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